Faculty

Ten full-time faculty and a rotating group of 26 part-time practitioner faculty provide high quality academic instruction and applied learning experiences.

Full-time faculty members are:

Mary Clare (formerly Henning-Stout), Ph.D.
Professor of counseling psychology. Specializes in consultation, responsive assessment, intercultural competence, sexual minority youth in schools, and development of girls.

Carol Doyle, Ph.D.
Assistant professor of counseling psychology. Specializes in research methods and statistics, and gay and lesbian issues.

Margaret Eichler, Ph.D.
Part-time Assistant professor of counseling psychology. Specializes in counseling work with children and adolescents, counseling queer youth, group counseling, clinical skills training and supervision, creativity in counseling, educational consultation with children and families in school settings.

Ruth Gonzalez, Ph.D.
Instructor of counseling psychology. Specializes in adolescent growth and development, crisis and threat assessment work, group work in schools, and development of coping skills in families and adolescents.

Stella Kerl-McClain, Ph.D.
Associate professor of counseling psychology. Specializes in families, couples and individual therapies; diagnosis and treatment of college students, children, adolescents, community women, couples and families, and people with chronic mental illness.

Gordon Lindbloom, Ph.D.
Associate professor of counseling psychology. Specializes in stress in the workplace, teamwork and collaboration, integrating mental health and addictions treatment, forgiveness, and integrating spirituality into counseling and therapy.

Teresa McDowell, Ed.D.
Associate professor of counseling psychology and marriage, couple, and family therapy program coordinator. Specializes in race/racism in family therapy practice and education, critical multicultural family research, and internationalizing family therapy programs.

Joan Hartzke McIlroy, Ph.D.
Associate professor of counseling psychology. Specializes in midlife transition, crisis intervention, disaster mental health response, animal-assisted therapy, strength-based interventions, counseling theories, and career counseling.

Peter Mortola, Ph.D.
Associate professor of counseling psychology and school psychology program coordinator. Specializes in school psychology, narrative and Gestalt approaches to understanding children's problems, and developmentally appropriate methods of child and adolescent counselor education.

Boyd Pidcock, Ph.D.
Associate professor of counseling psychology and addictions program coordinator. Specializes in addictions counseling, adolescent and family treatment, intergenerational vulnerability to addictions, and community program development.

Amy M. Rees-Turyn, Ph.D.
Associate professor of counseling psychology. Provides supervision for counseling and school psychology students. Research and teaching interests include GLBT issues, feminist therapies, counselor supervision, and ecosystemic child/adolescent treatment.

Tod Sloan, Ph.D.
Department Chair and Professor of Counseling Psychology. Interests include psychoanalytic theory, adult development, community psychology, and critical social theory.

Adjunct Faculty

We occasionally seek adjunct faculty to cover courses for faculty on sabbatical. In most cases, a doctoral degree and relevant teaching experience is required. To be considered for future opportunities, send curriculum vitae and a cover letter listing courses of interest to Dr. Tod Sloan at sloan@lclark.edu.

Steven Berman, MSW, MBA, LCSW
Adjunct faculty in counseling psychology. Steve has 35 years of experience in the field of child, adolescent, and family mental health. He has directed several of the major child and family treatment programs in Portland and currently maintains a private practice in individual and family therapy and clinical supervision. MSW,1970, University of Michigan; MBA, 1983, Portland State University, BA, 1968, University of Cincinnati.

Lorelynn Mirage Cardo, Ph.D.
Adjunct professor in Counseling Psychology. Specializing in career counseling, ethnicity, narrative, noetics, energetics and quantum applications in counseling. Currently in private practice, mentoring alternatives in counseling, healing, and education; adjunct at Pacific University. Thirty years experience in counseling and teaching nursery school to doctoral students. PhD in Counseling and Psychological Services from Fordham University. MS in Education/ Guidance and Counseling, Hunter College.

Taranum Chaudry, Ph.D.
Adjunct professor of Marriage and Family Therapy. Full-time private practice. Specializes in adolescent, couple and family therapy. Supervising Master-level students of George Fox University. Ph.D. 1994 Brigham Young University. M.A. 1986 University of Sussex, Brighton. B.A. 1975 Kinnaird College for Women.

James Gurule, MA
Adjunct faculty since 1998, instructor for pre-practicum and ethics courses. Works full time as a Licensed Professional Counselor at Lifeworks NW, specializing in psychotherapy with children and families. Interest areas include play therapy, family systems, and clinical supervision. M.A. (1985) from the University of Notre Dame, B.S. (1981) from the University of New Mexico.

Zip Krummel, MEd, MSC
Adjunct professor of counseling psychology. Specializes in school-related work (pre-Kindergarten through young adult), developmental issues, crisis/trauma intervention, psychological testing & assessment, and judicial stress and trauma issues. Involved in ongoing research with juror stress and intervention techniques. M.Ed. 1986 Oregon State University; M.S.C. 1991 Portland State University; A.B.D. Portland State University (2005 completion).

Jeanne Lilly, Ph.D.
Adjunct faculty in counseling psychology. 20 years experience in providing clinical services. Professional interests include the treatment of trauma, psychospiritual approaches to counseling, Eastern psychology, and universal values education. Also adjunct faculty at Marylhurst University. PhD Ohio State University, 1986; MA Ohio State University, 1984; BA Saint Bonaventure University, 1981.

Richard Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Adjunct faculty since 1980, teaching Introduction to Assessment and Internship. In private practice as consultant to schools and child and family therapist. Ph.D. from Emory University, 1980; M.A. Emory University, 1976; A.B. University of Michigan, 1974.

Dennis Swiercinsky, Ph.D., ABPN
Thirty years service in clinical psychology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation, and education including: hospital diagnostic and treatment team leadership, clinical neuropsychological assessment and treatment, civil and criminal forensic examinations and testimony, academic and hospital teaching and student supervision, writing and publishing, administrative and business leadership. Ph.D. University of Kansas, 1974. Diplomate, 1998, American Board of Professional Neuropsychology.

Thomas G. Ten Eyck, M.A.
Teaches about addictions, specializing in the pharmacology of drugs of abuse, problem and pathological gambling, and the American perception of addiction through the lens of art, literature, and advertising. Background includes clinical program supervision, development, and administration, as well as instructing at undergraduate and graduate levels at five different institutions of higher education.

Suzanne L. Younge, Ph.D., CADC III
Adjunct instructor of counseling psychology. Post doctorate 1994 at Oregon Health Sciences University; Ph.D. 1993 from Colorado State University; M.Ed. 1983 from Antioch University; B.A. 1964 from Northwestern University. Active in the substance abuse prevention field in Colorado from 1979-1989. Received the Colorado Prevention Contractor of the Year award in 1985. Certified nationally and in Colorado and in Oregon as an addictions counselor for a total of 21 years.

In private practice as an adolescent psychologist which includes assessment and evaluation as well as treatment cases. Previously taught at Colorado State University, Marylhurst University, Washington State University and for six years at Portland State University in the psychology department. Instructor for Lewis and Clark College since spring 2005.